Human Rights

Old Problems, New Possibilities

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

Reflecting on the various dichotomies through which human rights have traditionally been understood, this book takes account of recent developments in both theories of rights and in international human rights law to present new ways of thinking about some long-standing problems.Leading legal and political philosophers, social theorists and scholars of international law discuss traditional dilemmas and taxonomies in human rights theory, engaging with contemporary scholarship and current practice. The book examines various tensions, such as those between legal and moral rights, positive and negative rights, universal and particular rights, and group and individual rights.Encouraging new thinking about conventional understandings of human rights, this book will strongly appeal to international lawyers, legal and political philosophers, as well as graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students in law and philosophy.Contributors: T. Campbell, P. Emerton, D. Ivison, D. Kinley, E. MacDonald, S. Marks, J. Mowbray, T. Pogge, W. Sadurski, J. Waldron, N. Walker, K. Walton

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-11-29
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781781002742

Utforska kategorier

Folkrätt inom Juridik
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Politiskt förtryck inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Edited by David Kinley, Professor of Human Rights Law, Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Professor of Jurisprudence and Kevin Walton, University of Sydney, Australia

Recensioner i media

‘The book sets out to interrogate and challenge many of the distinctions drawn in the human rights discourse; but it also highlights and critiques the different and incomplete ways in which legal philosophers and international lawyers see human rights. These issues are dealt with by some of the leading -and most readable - authors in the field.’

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:PrefaceDavid Kinley, Wojciech Sadurski and Kevin Walton1. Human Rights: Moral or Legal?Tom Campbell2. Human Rights as Moral RightsKevin Walton3. Are We Violating the Human Rights of the World’s Poor?Thomas Pogge4. Human Rights and Political Agency: On Pogge’s Analysis of Human Rights Violations TodayDuncan Ivison5. Universalism and Particularism in Human Rights: Trade-off or Productive Tension?Neil Walker6. The Particularism of Human Rights DiscoursePatrick Emerton7. Democracy and Human Rights: Good CompanionsJeremy Waldron8. Recasting the Relationship: Human Rights, Democracy and Constitutionalism as Material Topoi of LegitimacyEuan MacDonald9. Autonomy, Identity and Self-knowledge: A New ‘Solution’ to the Liberal-Communitarian ‘Problem’?Jacqueline Mowbray10. Four Human Rights MythsSusan Marks11. Where Hope Meets Expectation between Human Rights Idealism and PragmatismDavid KinleyIndex